Wednesday, November 20, 2013

How dumb can you get? ID hunters want wolves killed because they think elk will be helped

By Associated PressNovember 18, 2013

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TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — About a third of Idaho hunters making
written comments on the Idaho Fish and Game Commission’s draft elk
management plan say they want more wolves killed to increase the elk
population.

The Times-News reports that the commission on Thursday at its
quarterly meeting received the first report on the 442 comments. About
150 of hunters making comments say they want increased measures to
control wolf populations. Only 19 people making comments wanted no wolf
control measures. The elk management plan was last updated in 1999.

Fish and Game officials hope to have a plan in place by early in
2014. Plan coordinator Craig White says wolves have cut elk populations
in some areas, but some parts of the state have so many elk they are
causing problems for farmers.

The film offers an abbreviated history of the relationship between wolves and people—told from the wolf’s perspective—from a time when they coexisted to an era in which people began to fear and exterminate the wolves.

The return of wolves to the northern Rocky Mountains has been called one of America’s greatest conservation stories. But wolves are facing new attacks by members of Congress who are gunning to remove Endangered Species Act protections before the species has recovered.

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Inescapably, the realization was being borne in upon my preconditioned mind that the centuries-old and universally accepted human concept of wolf character was a palpable lie... From this hour onward, I would go open-minded into the lupine world and learn to see and know the wolves, not for what they were supposed to be, but for what they actually were.

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf

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“If you look into the eyes of a wild wolf, there is something there more powerful than many humans can accept.” – Suzanne Stone